Is Planet mars red in colour ??

Question

Hi there...
I have came accross an article inside a magazine called
" uncensored" and actually in that article they wrote that NASA is actually faking the true colour of planet Mars. they claim that terrain in Planet mars is actually brown-muddish. How far is this true ? can you please find out and give some answres or point of views...

Answer 1

Here is a picture I took of Mars that is as close to what it really looks like in a telescope as I could make it. It is a very pale salmon color. NASA does not fake colors, but they do not always show things in natural color either. Color is actually quite subjective and hard to capture in a natural looking way. Many NASA photographs are taken in a way to emphasize certain things they are looking for, but others are color balanced to look as natural as possible. The caption will usually tell you if the colors in a particular picture are intended to be natural looking or not.

Answer 2

The Red Planet, this name has to appear in every article of the main-stream press on Mars. The same importance play the little green men in contributions of renowned daily German papers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung or Sueddeutsche Zeitung published on the Mars meteorite ALH84001.

Without doubt, the planet appears red with the naked eye in the night sky, whereby our earth viewed from Mars, would appear clearly blue, due to the 70% water coverage in connection with refraction of light in the atmosphere. With a reverse relation of the water land distribution however, rather a brown-green planet would be to be seen from space.

The color of the atmosphere, caused by Rayleigh Scattering[4] at gas molecules, determines thus only in very small amount the color of a planet as seen from space and also directly on the surface!

Why then should the Mars sky, as NASA/JPL PR-department spreads it, should appear red? This coloring is justified if at all, only with the refraction of light at atmospheric dust. But such masses of dust in the atmosphere do not prevail over years on a planet, which has large water-clouds, fog and ground frost, since water would wash these away after short time.

Astronomers at the Hubble Spacetelescope and amateur-astronomers[8] are observing, since long time now, white water-clouds and blueish atmosphere

Answer 3

Well parts of Mars are brown... But, because it is relatively easy to view Mars with a simple telescope, you will see that parts of it are red due to the iron in the soil being oxidized, others are black, and others are brown. So technically, it is true, just be wary of the people who say that Mars is grey and harbours "Mars Attacks" aliens.

Answer 4

The red/orange appearance of Mars' surface is caused by iron(III) oxide (rust).[1] Mars has half the radius of the Earth and only one-tenth the mass, being less dense, but its surface area is only slightly less than the total area of Earth's dry land.[2] While Mars is larger and more massive than Mercury, Mercury has slightly stronger gravity at the surface, due to its much higher density.

The surface of Mars is thought to be primarily composed of basalt, based upon the Martian meteorite collection and orbital observations. There is some evidence that a portion of the Martian surface might be more silica-rich than typical basalt, perhaps similar to andesitic stones on Earth, though these observations may also be explained by silica glass. Much of the surface is deeply covered by iron(III) oxide dust as fine as talcum powder.[3]

There is conclusive evidence that liquid water existed at one time on the surface of Mars. Key discoveries leading to this conclusion include the detection of various minerals such as hematite and goethite which sometimes form in the presence of water.[4]

Although Mars has no intrinsic magnetic field, observations have revealed that parts of the planet's crust have been magnetized. This magnetization has been compared to alternating bands found on the ocean floors of Earth. One theory, published in 1999 and reexamined in October 2005 with the help of the Mars Global Surveyor, is that these bands are evidence of the past operation of plate tectonics on Mars.[5] Polar wandering could also explain this paleomagnetism.

Current models of the planet's interior infer a core region approximately 1,480 km in radius, consisting primarily of iron with about 15-17% sulfur. This iron sulfide core is partially fluid, with twice the concentration of light elements that exists at the Earth's core. The core is surrounded by a silicate mantle that formed many of the tectonic and volcanic features on the planet, but now appears to be inactive. The average thickness of the planet's crust is about 50 km, and it is no thicker than 125 km.[6]

And it's brownish red

Answer 5

Mars-onian:

The actual color of Mars is a reddish-brown mix. The photos you may have seen of the red-planet are false-color images of the surface soil of Mars.

Answer 6

the colour of Mars is from Ferrous compounds (iron) even with the undeniable fact that it replaced into alluded to from legends as Mars replaced into the God of conflict (and his companion replaced into Venus...the goddess of affection) and pink replaced into seen a masculine colour of fury and anger.

Answer 7

I think brown, I have read this articles and maybe this will help you, check out here http://mars-news.de/color/blue.html

Answer 8

Good question


It's true . Its neither red nor brown .

Answer 9

Yes, hense the name RED PLANET.

Answer 10

brown